Sense

1. the implements of Bacchus, the thyrsi and torches

Examples

• αἳ δ’ ἅμα πᾶσαι θύσθλα χαμαὶ κατέχευαν ὑπ’ ἀνδροφόνοιο Λυκούργου θεινόμεναι βουπλῆγι· (Homer, Iliad, Book 6 17:10)

Similar forms

• θύσθλον (2)
• θύσθλα (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.